I said, “Yes, but if you recall, that hall pass stated that I would not file any retribution because of my infidelity and that recording from Evie proves that there was never any infidelity so those hall passes are null and void.”
Lynn nodded and said, “Point given. I think I can work with that.”
I did find out that I could postpone the vacation until a later date, not to exceed 12 months. That was a plus. Lynn pulled that off, although she did turn down my offer to be my date on the trip.
Rose was served at work, on our anniversary. She broke down and needed to be sedated and ended up in the hospital I was told by Linda. A week later, the shit hit the fan, as Kevin and his fiancé, Alicia showed up. He had gotten leave from the Air Force to be here. Tammi had gotten emergency leave from the Navy and Dustin had come home from college. They were all waiting at home for me with Rose and both sets of our parents. This was going to be her shit show, only she didn’t know it was going to fall back on her. They all demanded I be there and explain why I was divorcing their Rose. As if things couldn’t get any worse, both sets of parents walked in to find out what was going on. I figured they wanted an intervention and were hoping to get the two of us back together again. That wasn’t happening.
Figuring I needed a little moral support, I had asked Jenni to accompany me. When I stopped to pick her up, wow, was I impressed, damn she looked hot. When we walked in, I introduced Jenni to everyone so they knew who she was.
Little did they know that I had put together a nice PowerPoint presentation for them. I was told to be there at 8:00 sharp. When I walked in with Jenni, it really pissed Rose off. Damn Jenni cleaned up well. The kids began firing off questions all at once and Jenni had brought her old referee’s whistle for me and blew it. That brought them to attention so I went to our big screen TV and plugged in my USB flashdrive and took the TV controls. I started with showing everyone where I had planned on taking Rose for our 25th Anniversary. It showed the bungalow and all the amenities it offered and then the couples spa and the restaurants and pools, beaches, tourist attractions and all. Rose was sobbing with Tammi and Alicia on each side comforting her. I then showed pictures of the boat we were supposed to take and all the ports we were supposed to visit with the rum distilleries and ports of call and activities we were scheduled to do, then our itinerary for Puerto Rico and everything we had been scheduled to do there.
Kevin stood up and said, “Dad, then why the hell are you divorcing her instead of taking her on that trip?”
I turned to my soon to be ex-wife and said, “Rose, I know about the fourth hall pass, now I want to know about what you did on the other three hall passes you used.”
“Michael, I can’t do that,” she said, “I had hall passes. The hall passes said you couldn’t ask.”
I clicked the screen and the paper she had given me showed up on the screen. “You mean this worthless document I suppose?” Everyone in the room looked at it and the murmurs went through the group and Tammi said, “But dad, you signed and dated it.”
I smiled and said, “Ah, yes. But did you read the part where it says and I quote, ‘I will not ask any questions nor apply any retribution in any manner whatsoever due to my OWN infidelity.'” I had my own infidelity highlighted on my screen, and they all nodded. Then I hit play again and Evie’s confession played out where she admitted that I never had sex with her.
As it finished, Rose was in hysterics. She kept trying to apologize to me. I looked at her and said, “Sorry, you wouldn’t believe me. Even if I had been drunk and had unknowingly had sex with your sister, it doesn’t make it alright for you to go out and do what you did. You with forethought, purposely decided to throw our marriage vows in the garbage and have sex with someone else. When I went up and saw that there was only one of the five hall passes left, I thought then our marriage was in trouble but I hoped we could talk and maybe salvage something but when I saw that video, I lost all love that I had for you.”
“Now, are you going to tell me about the other three times you used your hall passes or not?”
Rose began talking only it was so low no one could hear her so I so I rather forcibly asked louder this time. She looked startled then said, “Michael, remember when I was so nervous about that big $14 million mansion listing that the buyer couldn’t make up his mind on about a year and a half ago?” I nodded.
“Well, Robert was a very distinguished older gentleman and he had taken me out to lunch and we had a bottle of wine with lunch, maybe it was two. Anyway, he had been telling me how beautiful I was and how lucky you were to have such a beautiful wife and how he wished his wife was still alive. He asked if it would be possible for him to take me on a date on Friday night as that’s one of the things, he really missed about being married was he loved to take his wife out to dinner and dancing. I didn’t see the harm in it so I told you I had a meeting with a client, which was sort of the truth.
Anyway, he picked me up at my office in a limo and we went to the Costero California Bar and Bistro at Sheraton Gateway Hotel. He started ordering me chocolate martinis. Oh, those were good. I think I had three or four then he ordered us dinner and I had the most excellent steak I’ve ever had. It was a petite filet mignon wrapped in bacon, smothered in Chanterelle mushrooms, petite new potatoes in a creamy butter sauce, asparagus in hollandaise sauce and fresh honey/cinnamon knot rolls and a delicious Cabernet Sauvignon to wash it down. Then we had some port to wash that down and relax as we talked.
We heard music playing and he asked if I ‘d like to dance so we moved into the lounge and he found us a table. He began ordering me more chocolate martini’s and we began dancing. He was a great dancer, and an even better kisser. He asked me if I was willing to throw in something extra in order to sell the house to him and I asked him what he had in mind. He said, ‘I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but you are an extraordinarily beautiful woman, that reminds me so much of my sweet wife, that if you would consent to having sex with me, tonight and possible a few more times, I will buy the house from you at the full asking price.’ I’m sorry, Michael but I told him to get a room. He must have been pretty sure of himself because he already had reserved a suite and we went up and spent the next 3 hours up there.
The day the sale on the house closed, he said he wanted me naked in his house from 8:00 AM until 6:00 PM the following day and wanted to have sex with me in every room in the house. And we did. That was about a month after our first meeting. I couldn’t believe how many times that man made love to me. He’s no bigger than you Michael, it’s just his stamina is something else, or maybe he was using something. I don’t know but he took me in ways you never have, or have never asked for. He’s a very good lover and really knows how to turn a woman on. Then Robert wanted me for a weekend trip, that was when I said I had that conference two weeks before that night you caught me. Can you ever forgive me Michael?”